The 2019 edition of The Development Effectiveness Overview highlights how the IDB Group supports the Sustainable Development Goals in the region as well as lessons learned from projects in the urban transport, agribusiness, and health sectors.

The present study identifies that more investment is not necessarily what LAC requires to close the infrastructure gap, but instead it needs a more efficient investment. LAC could save up to 40 percent of the infrastructure investment - more than 1 percent of regional GDP - by efficiency improvements in public infrastructure spending.

Find out in the third issue of our series "The Future of Work in Latin America and the Caribbean", which combines data sources to understand the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the labor market.

This report analyzes the potential consequences for the region of selected negative external shocks. It considers how countries can strengthen macroeconomic policy frameworks to mitigate these events and the monetary, fiscal, and debt management policy choices available...